• Mass on Sunday, December 7, 2025, at 10 A.M. Christmas Brunch to follow – hopefully, many of you can join us!
• Please call, 507-429-3616, or email, aaorcc2008@gmail.com, if I can help you in any way.

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Dear Friends,

Again, my apologies for canceling last Sunday due to the weather, but we are scheduled to meet this Sunday, and begin, a bit late, our journey through Advent to Christmas together. Try if you can, to find simple ways to connect to your inner spirits during this holy season, striving to become your best selves, for you, and for others. Perhaps this will look like contributing to the Food Shelf on Second Street, the overnight shelter, presently meeting at Wesley United Methodist, or The Catholic Worker House, both on Broadway, or to our parish, All Are One that shares 75-80%, sometimes more, to needy causes within our city, nation and world.

Please know of our gratitude for all that each of you already does! May each of you be richly blessed during this holy season.

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• Isaiah 11: 1-10
• Romans 15: 4-9
• Matthew 3: 1-12

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• A most happy and blessed Thanksgiving to each of you–may you experience a renewed sense of family and friendships this year, along with gratitude for all that is good in your lives.
• Mass on Sunday, November 30, 2025, at 10 A.M.
• Please never hesitate to call, 507-429-3616, or email, aaorcc2008@gmail.com, if I can help you in any way.
• Remember to SAVE THE DATE, December 7, 2025 for a Christmas Brunch after Mass with our sibling community!

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Dear Friends,

This Sunday Advent begins! It is a time of anticipated joy to come, and it calls for a balance between slowing down, even a bit, while preparing for the upcoming joy of Christmas. We will be well-served by this balance.

Come; be with us this week!

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• Isaiah 2: 1-5
• Romans 13: 11-14
• Matthew 24: 37-44

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• Mass on Sunday, November 23, 2025, at 10 A.M. Social time to follow. In our prayer time this Sunday, we will be including a short lighting service during Mass to remember parishioners who have passed on. You may also light a candle for your family members who may have died this past year.
• MARK YOUR CALENDARS – December 7, 2025, Christmas Brunch after Mass for both parishes – hopefully many of you can attend!
• Please never hesitate to call, 507-429-3616, or email, aaorcc2008@gmail.com, if I can help you in any way.

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Dear Friends,

With this Sunday’s feast, we end another Year of Grace. Let us keep our eyes on Jesus, who shows us the way.

Come; pray with us this week.

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• 2 Samuel 5: 1-3
• Colossians 1: 12-20
• Luke 23: 35-43

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• Mass on Sunday, November 16, 2025 at 10 A.M. Social time to follow. All Are One is on for refreshments this Sunday. Barbara R. and Pastor Kathy will be on! We will need two people for December 21st if you can help out.
• MARK YOUR CALENDARS: Sunday, December 7th, there will be First Congo’s Annual Christmas brunch. There will be an egg bake and breakfast breads/rolls. Hopefully, you can join us for this annual event!
• REMEMBER to bring birth and death dates during November, or you can send them to me if you can’t be with us for Mass, and I will add them to our Book of Life. We celebrate during November all who have passed and are now with God in a special way.
• Please never hesitate to call, 507-429-3616, or email, aaorcc2008@gmail.com if I can help you in any way.

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Dear Friends,

This Sunday is the second to last of this Church Year, and we are called to look over our past year–how Christian have we been?

Come; ponder all with us this week.

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• Malachi 3: 19-20
• 2 Thessalonians 3: 7-12
• Luke 21: 5-19

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• Mass on Sunday, November 9, 2025 at 10 A,M. Social time to follow.
• REMEMBER to add your loved ones, family and friends’ names to our Book of Life, who have died this past year. On the last Sunday of the month, we will ritualize them all, from our parish and from your loved ones.
• Please never hesitate to call, 507-429-3616, or email, aaorcc2008@gmail.com, if I can help you in any way.

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Dear Friends,

Tough readings this week that point us today, as always, toward being our best.

Come; pray with us this week!

Peace and love,

Pastor Kathy

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Readings:

• 2 Maccabees 7: 1-2, 9-14
• 2 Thessalonians 2: 16 — 3:5
• Luke 20: 27-38

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